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by rusk 5mo ago
> There is no way to allow each limb to do its own thing I can pat my head and rub my belly at the same time.
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by rusk 5mo ago
As you’d expect from the staggeringly low (by international, 1st world standards) turnout
93.
by rusk 5mo ago
You could use PEFT? Operating on only a subset of weights is fairly standard practice nowadays …
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by rusk 5mo ago
Surprisingly hard to expel a child, particularly in the more privileged schools … far more satisfying from the perspective of an educator if they can address the issue.
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by rusk 5mo ago
Like a reverse panopticon - a truly terrifying concept if you tease it out …
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by rusk 5mo ago
Historically we have used intelligence as a way to distinguish man from animal and human from machine. We rely upon it to determine who has our best interests at heart vs who is trying to do us in. Obviously that all changes if we invent an
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by rusk 6mo ago
I think it’s one of many that indicates the underlying issues for its adoption. It’s a 90s technology, not as much thought was given about how it would be used.
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by rusk 6mo ago
> 1 what Cycles. I suppose you might say it’s a derivative. How many times per second the measurement returns to the original value. In engineering school we used to tie this directly to radians using the Euler notation pow(e, j * 2 * pi
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by rusk 6mo ago
Wait til you’ve got to copy & paste em, or see em comingled with hw addresses
100.
by rusk 6mo ago
Spoken like a 2007 bond trader
101.
by rusk 6mo ago
Indeed, I was trying to make it easier for you.
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by rusk 6mo ago
It needs an apostrophe then it makes more sense “Windows’ Subsystem for Linux” It is a Windows Subsystem, that caters to running Linux. It’s a functional title not an architectural one.
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by rusk 7mo ago
Setting aside that model means something different now … MDD never really worked because the tooling never really dealt with intent. You would get so far with your specifications (models) but the semantic rigidity of the tooling mean that a
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by rusk 8mo ago
Yet another side is arrogant little babies coming on board and making a big steaming mess of things because they thought they could do things better. Waaaaahhhhhhhh
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by rusk 8mo ago
I love that book but isn’t it nearly 30 years old?
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by rusk 8mo ago
My point was, that there’s plenty of ancient things we plod along with, even though they’re not perfect. Many have tried to improve upon them but few have stuck.
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by rusk 8mo ago
> this is how Windows NT has had async IO Pretty much what I was thinking of. My understanding from reading some commentary in this area is the Linux implementation is yet a little botched due to how it handles waiting threads.
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by rusk 8mo ago
More advanced APIs which allow more fine-grained interaction between system and application IF you can figure out how to use them
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by rusk 8mo ago
> switch Windows over to a Linux foundation. Though it seems to be sneaking in through application space on a WinNT foundation
110.
by rusk 8mo ago
> We need both Both can devolve into empire building. We need both to be transparent and open.
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by rusk 8mo ago
> We really are using a 1970s era 1970 Anno Domini no less
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by rusk 9mo ago
Believe it or not it’s a question on the pre-clearance form for travel to the US: ”are you or have you ever been a member of a terrorist organisation” - I always wondered what the rationale for that was
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by rusk 9mo ago
In Arthur C Clarke’s 2001 a space odyssey, in the book, he describes a flat handheld device that is used for reading the New York Times. He can’t remember the exact details but the ergonomics he describes perfectly encapsulate the tablet de
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by rusk 10mo ago
> there's no reason to capitalize that > Not clear why you think > Citation? Are you okay?
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by rusk 10mo ago
> 1. Never connect the TV panel itself to the internet. Keep it air-gapped. Treat it solely as a dumb monitor. I gave up on this. I turned off a lot of the smart features but couldn’t justify not being able to use the apps. It’s pretty d
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by rusk 10mo ago
> the most reliable signal american tech companies send is that they are primarily concerned with building a surveillance state Sagacious point. With emphasising. This is how non-European web business look to everyone.
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by rusk 10mo ago
Windows Vista had suicide doors
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by rusk 10mo ago
World War 1 and 2 were drug fueled. Americans saw the carnage after WW1 and instituted prohibition and then entered WW2 as the only sober participants. The Chinese 100 years of humiliation at the hands of the Brits, was down to Opium The fa
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by rusk 10mo ago
> short, medium, long-term effects of using it That would require a grown up conversation and what if the results aren’t the one you want? Pretty hard for Bud, Pfizer etc to put that genie back in the bottle
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by rusk 10mo ago
Wait til their substance abuser gets locked up that’s where the fun really begins

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